The good joke to say that I'm a fan of Sanji you don't even know me you say that I'm a fan of Sanji it's still amazing to say that.
I stand by what I say Sanji against Zoro it's hard to say that the minimum or the maximum in both cases.
Sanji doesn't push Zoro in extreme diff but in hard diff that's for sure.
That's all I said point. Always when we say in a neutral way that Sanji is not so far from Zoro's level.
The strongest detractors of Sanji you feel assaulted.
I can accept your opinion but the manga is telling something different,
The adv coc stuff is what it made clear that there are clear power that make a character a top tier or not.
The fact that in this arc Zoro&Luffy are getting the same PU which is necessary to fight into the next league with Yonkos made to me clear that you can't just say that all story was always luffy>Zoro>Sanji because is not like that.
If new information will come in the future in which prove that Sanji has something equally strong ad adv coc or adv coc himself, I will reconsider my position.
I wanna make clear that adv coc is a game changer because all previous luffy power were to shallow (didnt work on Kaido) so that include adv coo, g4 different forms, adv coa (internal destruction thing).
This goes also for Zoro, which could damage Kaido but King has a better defense than Kaido dragon scale so he need something better and adv coc attack are on a different league than what Zoro show on the rooftop.
Sanji doesnt have this kind of power, he has nothing that make possible to him for even try to fight in this category that why I am saying that the classic Lufy>Zoro>Sanji is obsolete. The new one is making Luffy>Zoro>>>Sanji. Feat and portrayed are also not with Sanji. I would accept if Sanji had a extended clash with a top tier pirate to think differently but that not the case.
Sanji in his own arc (around 80 more chapters) didnt clash with any YC nor did fight like Brook Big Mom. Oda went with the route of cooking the cake.
Zoro role in Wano is not cooking a cake, he stated that he went to Onigashima to cut to pieces Kaido. Do you see the difference?
That all, you can keep your argument that it was always like Luffy>Zoro>Sanji and I will tell you that is not true based on what the strongest creature in the world is saying. Kaido want the strongest in his crew. He respect strong individual so what is saying about new power is extremely important if you want to powerscale.